Thursday, July 24, 2014

‘Mirror Cave’ is a conceptual album in 8 movements based on Italo
Calvino’s short story ‘Sword of the Sun’ interspersed with excerpts from
Shinkichi Takahashi’s ‘After-Images: Zen Poems.’ In a face-off with the
ego, Palomar (Kathleen Baird) observes, reacts, contemplates, struggles
and finally transcends how the “sword” of the sun’s reflection on the
ocean always appears to stop exactly at his very own eye. Taralie
Peterson represents some other dimension of reality~”the sensation that
you are here but could not be here in a world that could not be but is.”

Recorded in spring of 2013, STITSR later connected with Providence based
artist Erik Ruin on a colorful 28-page offset printed booklet to
accompany the live recording that combines hand-drawn text, ink drawings
and scratchboard elements in layered and unexpected ways."

"this album brings together oddments ~ compilation tracks, plus a
previously unreleased live recording ~ and, although these songs were
never meant to be together as an album, they do work as one. If you
randomly pick two EP or compilation tracks or outtakes ofThe
Iditarod,and you put them together, they strangely make sense."morc